Hat-fastener.



PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

F. S. BOEDBPELD.

HAT FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11, 1902.

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FRANZ S. BOEDEFELD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HAT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,916, dated March 15, 1904.

Application filed June 11, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ S. BOEDEFELD, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Hat-Fasteners; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to an improved fastening device for ladies hats to be used in lieu of the ordinary hat-pins. Its object is to provide a simple form of fastener which can be attached to the under side of the hatbrim, which will securely hold the hat in position on the head of the wearer, and which is practically invisible when in use.

It consists of a wire bent centrally upon.

itself to form two pin portions or members, a staple adapted to be secured to the brim, and guides or keepers upon the horizontal portion of said staple in which said members are slidable, said members having their outer ends or detached from a hat-brim, having the means of attachment always at hand. Upon the horizontal portion of the staple are the eyelets or keepers 2, in which the pin members 3 are slidable. The pin is made from a single piece of spring-wire, and its central looped portionis flattened to form a head 4:, which will lie close against the keepers when the pin is pushed in Serial No. 111,133. (No model.)

i to its farther limit, and as the staple is secured to the under side of the brim close to the crown the device will be practically invisible upon the wearer.

The pin members diifer from others of a similar character so far as I am aware, particularly in that they are divergently curved, whereby as they are pushed into the hair they spread and support the hat at widely-separated points. The curve is exaggerated at the point, asshown at 5, which serves not only to lock the pin in the hair, but prevents its being totally withdrawn from the keepers, as when the hat is removed. This enables the points of the pin to be made round and so not to break the hairs, as a broad or blunt point would do.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

As an improved article of manufactiire, a hat-fastening consisting of a piece of springwire bent to form a head and diverging pin members the outer extremities of which are curved outwardly in opposite directions; and a staple formed from a single piece of sheet metal and made with a wide flat centralportion provided with struck-up portions forming guides for the pin members, said staple having a projecting tongue at each end tapering to a point and said tongues capable of being forced through the hat and then bent at right angles to secure the staple and its attached pin members independent of other fastening means.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FRANZ S. BOEDEFELD.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, CHAS. E. TOWNSEND. 

